Mumbai: Maharashtra’s former Dwelling Minister Anil Deshmukh didn’t seem for the Enforcement Directorate on Saturday in reference to a cash laundering case in opposition to the politician associated to prices of bribery of Rs 100 crore.
ED had summoned Deshmukh as we speak at 11 am after arresting Deshmukh’s private secretary Sanjeev Palande and private assistant Kundan Shinde who will probably be produced earlier than the court docket as we speak.
After Deshmukh skipped the summon, his legal professionals reached the Enforcement Directorate workplace with an software, searching for another date for his look earlier than the company.
Adv Jaywant Patil, Anil Deshmukh’s lawyer stated, “We have given the letter to ED & requested them to furnish paperwork primarily based on which we’re to be questioned as we haven’t any data in regards to the line of investigation. So we’re unable to look for questioning. Now ED has to take a name on it.”
The ED case in opposition to Anil Deshmukh and others was made out after the CBI first carried out a preliminary inquiry adopted by an everyday case being filed on the orders of the Bombay Excessive Court docket.
The court docket had requested the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI to look into the allegations of bribery made in opposition to Deshmukh by former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh.
Anil Deshmukh, who had resigned from his publish in April following the allegations, has denied any wrongdoing.
(With PTI inputs)